Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/wc-variation-swatches

Replace dropdowns with color, image, and label swatches for WooCommerce variations. Improve user experience and drive more conversions.

100 active installs v2.1.0 PHP 7.4+ WP 5.2+ Updated Mar 11, 2026
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A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 100/100

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 27d ago
Risk Assessment

The "wc-variation-swatches" plugin, version 2.1.0, exhibits a generally strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of dangerous functions, proper handling of SQL queries with prepared statements, and 100% output escaping are significant strengths. The presence of nonce checks further indicates an awareness of common WordPress security vulnerabilities. The plugin's vulnerability history, with no recorded CVEs, also suggests a mature and relatively secure development process.

However, a critical concern arises from the taint analysis, which identified two flows with unsanitized paths classified as high severity. While the attack surface appears minimal with zero unprotected entry points, these taint flows represent a potential avenue for attackers to inject malicious code or data, especially if these flows can be triggered without sufficient underlying input validation or sanitization that might not have been explicitly captured by the static analysis. The complete lack of capability checks, while not necessarily a direct vulnerability in itself, is a point of concern as it means authenticated users of any role could potentially interact with these specific flows, increasing the risk if the unsanitized paths are indeed exploitable.

Key Concerns

  • High severity unsanitized taint flows
  • No capability checks found
Vulnerabilities
None known

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Version History

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Release Timeline

v2.1.0Current
v2.0.9
v2.0.8
v2.0.7
v2.0.6
v2.0.5
v2.0.4
v2.0.3
v2.0.2
v2.0.1
v2.0.0
v1.1.2
v1.1.1
v1.1.0
v1.0.5
v1.0.4
v1.0.3
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
2 prepared
Unescaped Output
0
109 escaped
Nonce Checks
3
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

SQL Query Safety

100% prepared2 total queries

Output Escaping

100% escaped109 total outputs
Data Flows
2 unsanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows2 with unsanitized paths
add_attribute_column_content (includes\Admin\Admin.php:250)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 20
actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Admin\Admin.php:21
actionadmin_initincludes\Admin\Admin.php:22
actionwoocommerce_product_option_termsincludes\Admin\Admin.php:23
filteradmin_footer_textincludes\Admin\Admin.php:24
filterupdate_footerincludes\Admin\Admin.php:25
actioncreated_termincludes\Admin\Admin.php:91
actionedit_termincludes\Admin\Admin.php:92
actionadmin_initincludes\Admin\Notices.php:19
actionadmin_initincludes\Admin\Settings.php:29
actionadmin_menuincludes\Admin\Settings.php:30
actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Admin\SettingsAPI.php:33
actionbefore_woocommerce_initincludes\Plugin.php:68
actionwoocommerce_initincludes\Plugin.php:69
actionwp_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Products.php:83
actioninitincludes\Products.php:84
filterproduct_attributes_type_selectorincludes\Products.php:88
filterwoocommerce_attribute_labelincludes\Products.php:89
filterwoocommerce_dropdown_variation_attribute_options_htmlincludes\Products.php:163
filterwc_variation_swatch_attribute_htmlincludes\Products.php:172
actionwp_footerincludes\Products.php:173
Maintenance & Trust

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.9.4
Last updatedMar 11, 2026
PHP min version7.4
Downloads14K

Community Trust

Rating84/100
Number of ratings5
Active installs100
Developer Profile

Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches Developer Profile

PluginEver

13 plugins · 14K total installs

78
trust score
Avg Security Score
99/100
Avg Patch Time
317 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/wc-variation-swatches/css/admin.css/wp-content/plugins/wc-variation-swatches/js/admin.js

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
wc-variation-swatches-previewwc-variation-swatches-term-imagewc-variation-swatches-remove-image
Data Attributes
data-attribute_type
JS Globals
wcvs_object
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches